Russia’s Military Spending Hits $462 Billion, Outpacing Entire European Continent
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Russia’s Military Spending Hits $462 Billion, Outpacing Entire European Continent
https://united24media.com/latest-news/russias-military-spending-hits-462-billion-outpacing-entire-european-continent-5829
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Their inflation also outpaces the entire european continent (-turkey).
Redditors will smugly say “Russia is a gas station with a gdp the size of italy” while Russia outspends a continent on millitary.
Surely it’s time to take Russia, not as it is, but as the threat it’s becoming. Invest now and save lives later.
It’s almost as if, surprise!, they are actively in a war.
Expansion is expensive.
For such a powerful nation it’s a lot of money for such little ground, with a little country. They still a superpower?
Damn I bet a lot of that spending even actually makes it to the military rather than someone’s dacha
I mean it’s a war economy atm, duh
Killing your neighbors costs even more than a dozen eggs!
No wonder they blasted through half of their gold. Russia is really bleeding out right now.
In war economy, money is printed like goose that lay golden egg and wait until the bill comes due.
How much of those goes to the pockets or the House Elf’s cronies vs actual military spending?
And inflation is 30-50%+ or even more, impossible to say the real numbers because rosstat is manipulating the numbers – they’ve announced that its 9.52% which is lie because even russian central bank’s rate is 20% already lol. Taxes are up, budget’s deficit is trillions of rubles, money emission is crazy – in january 2022 the money supply M2 in russia was 65.5k rubles, now in january 2025 its 117k rubles, almost 90% increase in 3 years which means that inflation won’t stop anytime soon, looks like that they are printing money in crazy numbers
And who is pocketing this money?
Donkeys are expensive, I guess.
And look how far they got with it.
That’s almost 1/4 of GDP. That would be like the US spending $7.3T on the military. It’s absurd.
This is straight up not true. 2022 budget was $75b, 2023 was $85b, 2024 was $101b.
Imagine printing that much money, Spending that much money, and all you can buy are donkeys and North Koreans.
During the 1980s Soviets increased military budget massively. In the 1990s the Soviet Union fell to pieces
What could have happened if they invested same money in their own country ?
Those donkeys ain’t cheap.
And they can’t stop, cause stopping would collapse the economy and thus risk revolution. So they will produce more and more arms, to the point when they will have to attack someone to justify it. Even if we stop Ukraine war for a moment.
No. Russia has to loose. Collapse.
thats a gigaton of donkeys
A number thrown out without examining results is as good as no information at all.
But actually we should rejoice. Russia is emptying its war chest of assets and its financial resources and gaining almost nothing out of it. They are continually paying a higher and higher per asset cost from bodies to equipment, and the return is continually declining.
In comparison Europe is building and stockpiling its assets.
So one is on a downwards trend and the other on an upwards trend. For everyone but Russia this news is good news. Putin’s legacy is going to be that he was the man who broke his country. Thank you Putin!
Where is this money going? They seem to pay some $20k per soldier, let’s say it’s $50k so a force of 2 million personnel would cost $100 billion. A modern T90M tank is $5 million so that’d be $10 billion for 2000 of them.
If I total the paper cost of 2 mil. persons with a sizeable fleet of tanks, artillery, APCs, AA, shells and ammo and guided rockets and supply trucks and diesel for all of that and all you’ll land at some $250 billion. Meanwhile Russia is pulling WW2 era museum pieces with donkeys for double that money….
Where’s all that money going?
We’re seeing videos of glorified golf carts, donkeys, cripples and soldiers using civilian cars.
I have no idea how much of that money gets stolen by Putin and his lackeys and everyone else down the line but they should still be showing a lot more for that kind of money.
Don’t worry. USA will come support russia in its war against Europe.
“Hear me out, Morty. Quick three day special operation, Morty! In and out, three days and we got Ukraine, Morty!”
And still they go to the front on donkeys and modified Lada´s?
What are they spending it on?
A sure sign that Putin and his economy is in tatters
To be fair, most of that spending is getting blown up.
It won’t matter if russia spends twice as much in blood money for useless single use mercenaries and donkeys – they are soon out of experienced staff and will go bankrupt in a year. Then it’s good bye for them. Poutine knows this. His only chance now is a frozen conflict to rebuild his army.
Europe will continue to help Ukraine with more and more weapons and money. We and Ukraine stand together. We are motivated.
Meaning this war will continue until the russians finally take out their own leadership.
25% of Russian GDP? I don’t think so.
Yeh but they’re also putting wood around old ladas and driving them against tanks like.. what is the money going on? Old Korean ammo?
Obviously in preparations for peace. A piece of Poland
I don’t trust these bogus numbers. Russian has been under numerous sanctions, its economy is experiencing hardship. By world bank GDP, Russian is 2.24 trillion in 2024. That is saying Russia using 20% of its GDP on military spending, which is impossible.
And how much of that money ended in someone his pockets for nothing in return?
That’s nearly 25% of their GDP with a near useless currency. I highly doubt it.
It appears Russia spends loads on crutches and battle donkeys for their assault soldiers.
Truly terrifying.
Rubles or Euros?
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